A vehicle struck a utility pole on Grove Road just outside the village limits around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 3. Fire, police and AEP officials were called to the scene. Note the shortened utility pole on the south side of Grove Road.
The results of the National Kiddie Tractor Pull at Hometown Amerifest on June 26 were:
3 & 4 Year Olds - pulling 120 pounds
1st place - Cole Bower 4 years old from Bluffton with a pull of 21 feet 3 inches
2nd place - Gavin Bogart - 4 years old from Bluffton with a pull of 21 feet 1 inch
3rd place - Carson Kruse - 3 years old from Bluffton with a pull of 20 feet 11 inches
Seth Bixel (left), Project Manager, and Jeff Althaus, Assistant Project Manager, were presented certificates of "leadership and extraordinary service" by the Swiss Community Historical Society for their work on the restoration of the 1843 Schumacher House at the Society's Swiss Homestead on Bixel Road. (photo by Alice Lora)
Swiss Day, held on Sunday, June 27, this year celebrated both the 50th anniversary of the Bluffton-Pandora Swiss Community Historical Society and the completion of restoration work on its historic Schumacher House at the Swiss Homestead on Bixel Road.
Summer readers are invited to join the "Pirate Book & Movie Club" at Bluffton Public Library. During the month of July, copies of J.M. Barrie's book Peter Pan will be available at the library's circulation desk.
A discussion of the book will follow a screening of a PG-rated movie based on the book, which will be shown at the library on Thursday, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m.
